Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

But some general knowledge about financial literacy will bode well. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Simply getting new members to understand how to read a finance statement is another first step to financial literacy for board members. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Start at the recruitment stage.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . They focus funding on organizations that work on financial literacy for elementary and high school students (established programs only). Areas served: Worldwide. Areas served: US.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?” Bookshare today is part of a broader effort by Benetech’s Global Literacy Program to improve the lives and learning of students with the biggest challenges. I’d say, dodging the recommendations. My reaction was that this kind of advocacy work was a luxury we couldn’t afford.

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Advocacy Change Literacy DC 176

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2006

I just had a great meeting with Jenny Zhao where we talked about the cell phone industry in China. Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company. One of our dreams for the Route 66 technology is that it could be used to teach reading to people all over the world, in English as well as other languages.

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China Phone Literacy Ideas 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

The most important listening literacy skills are. Reiteracy is Social Media Listening Literacy. List 3 specific sub-topics or related ideas 4.) What else makes up listening literacy skills? What are your stories about how your organization's listening literacy skills have returned value? What should they say?

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Literacy Skills San Francisco Adwords 75

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This could range from financial literacy workshops to mentoring programs. It streamlines operational tasks, from setting up fundraising campaigns for financial literacy workshops to handling registrations for mentoring programs. Check out the National Museum of the American Latino for a range of resources and ideas.

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Celebrate Voice Artist America 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Michele Martin and Tony Karer have been blogging at the Work Literacy blog for several months now. Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.

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Literacy Social Media Skills Media 50

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. Accordingly, U.S. federal law supports braille instruction.

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Literacy eBook Images Accessibility 208

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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India Literacy United Kingdom United States 225

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. CityOptions The best idea we received last year for a new project is getting underway! and James L. with the books they need for educational success.

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Guatemala Literacy Qatar Open Source 159

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Coming up with fresh fundraising ideas for nonprofits isn’t always easy. But there’s always a new twist on an old idea—or even an old idea you haven’t thought of before! To make it easy, here’s a list of 75 fundraising ideas for nonprofits. To make it easy, here’s a list of 75 fundraising ideas for nonprofits.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie Classes 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. This is good, basic digital literacy principles that have been taught by educators and librarians taught in the early 2000′s and continue today. To encourage consumption of local information.

Literacy 110

Literacy Chapter Journal Teach 110

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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Literacy eBook United Kingdom Accessibility 158

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

It has been amazing to see the impact financial literacy can have on a person, and just how crucial financial literacy is on the future of our young people. integrate financial literacy into our school systems, or at least make. the resources to financial literacy known in our communities. Moreover, many parents feel.

Empowerment 79

Empowerment Literacy Change Arizona 79

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 5, 2021

This post aims to provide corporate social responsibility leaders with ideas to adapt to a challenging year. Simbi’s virtual reading platform enables global literacy through the power of narration, creation, translation, and donation. Meet Employees Where They Are & Support Their Passion. This isn’t your usual read-a-thon! .

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National Virtual Volunteer Philanthropy 94

sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Connect the dots and remind supporters that libraries promote literacy by offering free access to literature for all community members. Show the Impact of All Libraries You know all the great things libraries bring to communities—now make sure potential donors do, too. They believe in your work and want to see you succeed.

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Library Giving Literacy Social Media 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

But, everyone can raise their data literacy, especially visualization. So, as I curate resources on this topic, I was excited to discover Rahul Bhargava – a data nerd who writes the Data Therapy Blog for the MIT Center for Civic Media. And community organizations can use data to illuminate the challenges they face.

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Data Literacy Boston Charlotte 101

sgEngage

AUGUST 24, 2023

Let’s dive into some creative and out-of-the-box event ideas that are tailor-made for wearables, health trackers, and potentially for your organization.  Participants track the number of pages they’ve read or books they’ve completed on a leaderboard to support literacy and education.

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Track Activities Active Activism 66

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. copyright law. The Chafee Amendment has been crucial for this accomplishment.

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Copyright Law Accessibility Library 196

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

At CGI Annual Meetings, leaders from across sectors do more than just developing new ideas or getting inspired: they come together to take real action to address pressing global challenges. I’ve just had the chance to reflect on how cool CGI 2013 and some of the ideas I’m still processing!

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Global India Mobile Impact 134

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! We already have many exciting ideas flow into the Labs.

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India Literacy Global Accessibility 142

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea of ”data literacy” lately. What resonated with the crowd (based on a quick sample of tweets), was the idea of using a failfest to share what didn’t work and look at ways to improve results.

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Data Change Boston Literacy 100

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 2, 2012

They also demoed Read2Go, the accessible ebook application for the Apple OS and Route 66 Literacy, Benetech’s online literacy instructional program. Visionary funders who have supported this radical idea from the start attended our party last night including members of our board.

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Celebrate Google Literacy Library 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Here’s some things she mentioned that I thought were useful: The new digital literacy is not finding the information, but being able to make choices when you had enough information flood your brain and take the time to synthesize.

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Arts Literacy Brain Reflection 50

NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Assessing the technology skills of individual staff Once you have an idea of the skills required for each role in your organization, you will want to evaluate the current skills of each individual and identify needs for learning or supplementing with outside experts. Northstar Digital Literacy has some online assessments free to individuals.

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Skills Technology Develop Training 88

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Reading Eggs is ideal for organizations that work with literacy among children and want to motivate them through games. Check out how educators are using Reading Eggs for more ideas on how it can help your organization. Reading Eggs is an online reading education program for children aged 3 to 13. Is It Right for My Organization?

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Mobile eLearning Education Program eLearning 64

NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

MARYANNE DERSCH : Make It Stick: How to Get New Ideas into Action. I will show you just how to introduce these awesome new ideas in a way that will have anyone in your organization excited to implement them!” “You are going to learn so much at Cause Camp that you will want to take back to your organization and make stick.

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Causes Consultant Empowerment Storytelling 92

Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

JA teaches students financial literacy, professional skills, and everything else they need to become independent adults in both in-school and after-school programs. Here are a few charities you can donate to for National Back to School Month to support teachers and students. Junior Achievement. Final thoughts.

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National Awareness Student Classroom 52

Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the mid-1990s, Glenn met with his friend Barbara Altman to share his idea of opening a computer and career training center in Honduras. They achieve this through transformative digital advocacy, digital literacy, and tech certification training. Glenn taught himself the skills needed to maintain and repair computers.

Baltimore 52

Baltimore Honduras Classes Washington 52

Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 5, 2008

The article makes this sound like a new idea, but The Hunger Site (and their later projects for breast cancer, children’s health, literacy, rain forest protection, and animal rescue) has been doing this since 1999. The San Francisco Chronicle published an article about everywun.com , a new click-to-give site.

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San Francisco Hunger Literacy Cancer 100

Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2016

Sprout Your Digital Literacy Training Program. On March 23 , TechSoup for Libraries will help you sow the seeds of digital literacy at your organization by sharing two free digital literacy resources at our upcoming webinar. Register now.

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Childhood Adobe Literacy Free 36

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2011

Last quarter Betsy Beaumon presented the future of our Literacy program including Bookshare. Next quarter will be our new projects meeting, where we talk about the pipeline of new ideas for Benetech social enterprises. Each of our quarterly meetings tends to focus on big strategic issues facing Benetech.

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Literacy Disaster Phone Press 150

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He However, experiencing Napster sparked the idea for me of creating Bookster.

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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. If your nonprofit has offices or a community space, holding the event there is a great idea.

Ideas 52

Ideas People Local Classes 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication. Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines. So, what I do is write up content ideas for the next month.

Skills 108

Skills Facebook Literacy Metrics 108

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 20, 2012

Many philanthropists and scholars oppose this idea, citing concerns about lower overall giving. Click here to read Pat Lewis's "Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security.". Like this article? Get another!

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Research Policy Michigan Literacy 83

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, with a bit of creativity and determination, there are plenty of cheap fundraiser ideas that can help you reach your goals. Affordable Ideas for Your Nonprofit’s Next Fundraiser In this blog post, we’ve curated a list of 27 affordable fundraising ideas specifically tailored for nonprofits.

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Ideas Fundraising Classes Contest 52